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Not because DDG got better, but just because google got worse.

google is still better for site-specific searches, and google scholar still has minimal AI slop

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[โ€“] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

The killer for me has to be that it doesn't support searching for phrases within websites I need. Latest example: github. I can be on the project page, copy a phrase from the code and search ddg with it in double quotemarks, and get 0 results. Copy - google.com - paste - enter - loads of results.

Also the search function broke for about a day, a few days ago

[โ€“] flux@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's a bit surprising, given DDG uses Bing, Bing is Microsoft and Microsoft owns Github.

Did you try the same search with Bing, or have an example to share?

I'm on it, I'll do a test based on your suggestions

[โ€“] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

To be honest with you, I didn't even know that was a feature. (Unless I'm misunderstanding you.) Sounds cool!

If I need to search a website, I use either Ctrl+F or the site: search engine operator.

[โ€“] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, I'm so glad that operators like site: and before: are supported. Necessary for weeding out a few bad results aha

Yeah, I'm still salty that Google and most other search engines have cut out some of the boolean operators over the last decade or so.